The Wii U sucked. We don't have to be nice about it. It's the truth. It had some great exclusive games and the MiiVerse was pretty awesome, but that pretty much sums up the good stuff about it. And now the MiiVerse is dead and all but about a half dozen of those exclusive games are now available on the Switch. It could almost be phased out of existence without any real loss. Almost...

The Wii U still has one wonderful feature that makes it worth owning. It's just about the most perfect emulation device ever created. At least for Nintendo purposes. Along with the classic systems, it can act as a Wii and a DS, which is something you can't really do on PC or anything else for that matter.

The Wii titles in particular are what I'm looking forward to revisiting this summer. Another one of Wii U's massive shortcomings was the virtual console. So many great titles could have been given one last chance to be played. Then again maybe not considering only like 12 people had a Wii u. Still, I was definitely bitter that a lot of great games never got that one final showcase.

So this past weekend, I tinkered with my Wii U for several hours and unlocked it's potential!!! It was actually quite a pain in the butt, and would have been a lot easier had I just tried to do it on the Wii, but unfortunately the Wi-Fi on it is no longer working and that makes certain things significantly more difficult to do.

And while it is rationalization to some extent, it's also a reality that many Wii games cannot be imported to other systems because of the controller. Barring an actual successor to the Wii, these games are potentially locked and lost.

So at any rate that's going to be my summer project. I've pulled a list of games that I'd like to revisit or even play for the first time. And I'm going to see if my love for the Wii is still legit or if it's completely tinted by rose colored glass. That said, I've already gone a long way into this and I have to tell you, the Wii U menu looks fantastic when it's filled with a bunch of these Wii titles.
Posted by robio Tue, 01 Jun 2021 20:44:50 (comments: 36)
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Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:06:42
gamingeek said:

what's the resolution of the TV you're using?

I was originally playing it on a really old HD TV that was 720 dpi. That broke down towards the end of my play, so I switched to something much nicer that wii games should never be played on.
 
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 19:14:43
1080 or 4k?
 
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:25:18
Not to sound like a dumbass, but I really genuinely don't know. I think it's 1080. I just know it's a 55 inch Roku tv. It's actually the monitor for my work computer, and it's been sitting at my office since we started working from home last March. My boss thought it would be a great idea for everyone in our marketing department to have these huge monitors that we could treat more like bulletin boards, but it didn't work out real well.

Anyway after my old TV died I ended up going into my office to help file some paperwork and finally decided it's just gathering dust there, so why not bring it back here.
 
Sat, 19 Jun 2021 22:53:56

Nice.  Our school got rid of a nice 40 inch Samsung tv from my room to replace with a view sonic smart board. Nobody knows where the tv went.  I'd would have loved to take it home.

 
Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:16:15
I haven't been playing anything too seriously after I finished Warioware Smooth Moves but I have picked up Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort. In a surprising turn, my son who is now 15 years old wanted to play with me. So, well he's not exactly a "leave me the hell alone" loner type, like most kids his age he wants less and less to do with his parents. So this was actually a lot of fun. He's already asking to play Fortune Street with me so hopefully this will continue for a while.
 
Sat, 26 Jun 2021 13:01:47
I played some Lost in Blue: Shipwrecked this week. I was a fan of the original Lost in Blue game, though I never messed with the sequels and I don't have the sharpest memory of it anymore. That said, I know exactly why the series or at least this particular game more or less bombed. Anytime you want to cook, you have to play mini game. Anytime you want to craft a tool or item, that's a mini game. Want to pull some Vines down from a tree? That's another mini game. and they are not good mini games. These get painful real quick.
 
Tue, 29 Jun 2021 00:53:45
I managed to get Fishing Resort to work after all. I'd forgotten how the weed doesn't automatically save to your SD card if the main designated hard drive space is full. So after moving some stuff around, I was able to create a new save account and finally gave fishing resort, the game that inspired this whole thing, a spin.

Probably way too early to give an opinion, but I'll give it credit that the graphics are pretty good for a Wii game, and the basic fishing mechanic is solid. All motion controlled, but nothing too ridiculous. Really wish I could have gotten a hold of that fishing rod controller holder let the game originally came with.

Anyway, a lot of the places to fish are locked initially so I'm going to have to put in some hours and see what I can open up.
 
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:06:52
robio said:
I managed to get Fishing Resort to work after all. I'd forgotten how the weed doesn't automatically save to your SD card if the main designated hard drive space is full. So after moving some stuff around, I was able to create a new save account and finally gave fishing resort, the game that inspired this whole thing, a spin.




Probably way too early to give an opinion, but I'll give it credit that the graphics are pretty good for a Wii game, and the basic fishing mechanic is solid. All motion controlled, but nothing too ridiculous. Really wish I could have gotten a hold of that fishing rod controller holder let the game originally came with.




Anyway, a lot of the places to fish are locked initially so I'm going to have to put in some hours and see what I can open up.

I think I see the problem. LOL

 
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 15:27:12
Archangel3371 said:

I think I see the problem. LOL

that would have been a much better problem to have.
 
Wed, 30 Jun 2021 23:36:33
robio said:

that would have been a much better problem to have.

Indeed. Don’t know what it’s like down there but it’s all legal here baby. WinkWink

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